Sacred Heart CPO doctors earn too much, says Minister McCann

(Quebec) The Legault government wants to relaunch the Sacred Heart Hospital's Center for Organ Harvesting (CPO), but the doctors working there will have to agree to reduce their fees, health minister Danielle warned Wednesday. McCann.

Posted on October 16, 2019 at 1:29 pm

Martin Croteau
The Press

"Currently, we have sampling centers in Montreal, Quebec, which do work at the same height and quality as Sacre-Coeur hospital," said the minister. Why would we pay three times more doctors at the Sacre-Coeur Hospital who are coordinators of this center than doctors working at the CHUM at McGill? "

The unit ceased operations last Friday. Quebec had offered the doctors who work there to be paid at the same height as their colleagues from other centers. These refused. The coordinating physician of the CPO, the D^r Pierre Marsolais, resigned in protest.

Quebec therefore maintains an envelope of $ 1.4 million for OAC hospital costs. But the 1.2 million budget for intensivists, anesthetists and pathologists to devote themselves to organ donation has not been renewed.

M^me McCann says he hopes to find a "way of passage" with the center's medical staff.

"Our goal is to reopen it and we would like doctors to come back and sit down with the department to discuss their compensation," she said.

The Sacre-Coeur OAC was unique in Canada. He had his own health care team, two intensive care beds and an operation room dedicated to transplants. Experts contacted by Press believe that this model should have been replicated elsewhere, not broken.